All The Claims

1. A communications system for a position detector, comprising:
a position detector for detecting an amount of movement of a machine;
an AD converter connected to the position detector;
a numerical control device connected to the AD converter and receiving a position signal converted by the AD converter; and
an information processor connected to the AD converter via bidirectional communication means capable of bidirectional communication,
wherein the information processor is a device including a storage section for preserving data and a program, a computing section for computationally operating the program, and a display section for indicating results of computational operation by the computing section, and the data, and
wherein the program has a function of indicating an abnormality on the display section, if none of position data on the position detector, internal state data on the position detector, manufacturer’s serial number data on the position detector, model data on the position detector, version data on the position detector, internal signal data on the position detector, and abnormality data on the position detector can be obtained, or if the abnormality data on the position detector has been received, or if the internal signal data on the position detector deviates from an allowable value.
2. The communications system for a position detector according to claim 1, wherein
the program has a function of determining whether internal signal data on the position detector is within a prescribed value when an adjustment mode of the position detector is set, and indicating acceptability or unacceptability of adjustment on the display section.
3. The communications system for a position detector according to claim 1, wherein
the program has a function of preserving various data, including position data on the position detector, internal state data on the position detector, internal signal data on the position detector, and abnormality data on the position detector, in the storage section periodically.
4. The communications system for a position detector according to claim 1, wherein
the program has a function of determining whether a difference between current data on the position detector and data thereon during installation thereof is within a prescribed value, and indicating abnormality or normality on the display section.
5. The communications system for a position detector according to claim 1, wherein
the program has a function of setting an adjustment mode of the position detector.
6. The communications system for a position detector according to claim 1, wherein
the program has a function of changing internal parameters of the position detector.
7. The communications system for a position detector according to claim 1, wherein
the program has a function of writing correction data for the position detector.
8. The communications system for a position detector according to claim 1, wherein
the program has a function of changing a software version of the position detector.
9. A machine tool including the communications system for a position detector according to claim 1, wherein
the machine is a table on which a workpiece is installed, or is a tool for machining the workpiece.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A probe vibrating assembly for endoscopic procedures comprising a main body, a spindle in said main body, a drive mechanism for rotating said spindle, a drive member eccentrically mounted to said spindle, a clamp mechanism, said eccentrically mounted drive member being secured to said clamp mechanism for moving said clamp mechanism back and forth in accordance with the movement of said eccentric drive member, a cylinder clamped in said clamp mechanism, said clamp mechanism thereby causing said cylinder to move back and forth in response to the movement of said clamp mechanism, a probe extending through said cylinder with said cylinder being transversely between said clamp mechanism and said probe, and said probe being mounted for joint back and forth movement with said cylinder in response to the back and forth movement of said cylinder, a medical scope, said probe mounted to said medical scope, and said probe extending outwardly beyond said medical scope.
2. The assembly of claim 1 including a catheter mounted to said medical scope and extending through said medical scope, and said probe being a guide wire disposed in said catheter.
3. The assembly of claim 1 wherein said probe is a flexible needle terminating in a knife edge for breaking up a tumor tissue to facilitate the tissue being removed, and said medical scope being a flexible endoscope.
4. The assembly of claim 3 including a plunger telescopically mounted in said cylinder for relative motion between said cylinder and said plunger, and said needle extending through said cylinder and said plunger.
5. The assembly of claim 4 wherein said plunger and cylinder comprise part of an aspiration structure for retrieving tissue contacted by said needle.
6. The assembly of claim 5 wherein said aspiration structure further includes a pull handle mounted to the outer end of said needle outwardly of said cylinder whereby the outward pulling of said pull handle creates a suction to permit broken up tissue to be removed.
7. The assembly of claim 3 wherein said spindle is driven by a variable speed control.
8. The assembly of claim 3 wherein said spindle is rotatable about its longitudinal axis, said drive member being part of an oscillating head, said eccentrically mounted drive member moving in an eccentric path with the longitudinal axis of said drive member being spaced from said longitudinal axis of said spindle, and said drive member being mounted in an elongated slot in a slide plate in said oscillating head to move said slide plate in a back and forth direction perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of said spindle.
9. The assembly of claim 3 wherein said clamp mechanism includes a clamp housing, said clamp housing having a seat for receiving said cylinder, a pivotally mounted lever located at said clamp housing, and said pivotally mounted lever having a clamping end biased in a direction toward said seat of said clamp housing whereby said cylinder may be clamped between said seat and said clamping end.
10. The assembly of claim 3 wherein said medical scope is detachably mounted to said main body.
11. The assembly of claim 1 wherein said back and forth movement is in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said spindle.
12. The assembly of claim 3 wherein a pull handle is mounted to the outer end of said needle outwardly of said cylinder.
13. The assembly of claim 12 wherein said clamp mechanism includes a clamp housing, said clamp housing having a seat for receiving said cylinder, a pivotally mounted lever located at said clamp housing and said pivotally mounted lever having a clamping end biased in a direction toward said seat of said clamp housing whereby said cylinder may be clamped between said seat and said clamping end, said clamping end of said lever having an arcuate recess, and said seat having an arcuate recess for receiving said cylinder.
14. A probe vibrating assembly for endoscopic procedures comprising a main body, a spindle in said main body, a drive mechanism for rotating said spindle, a drive member eccentrically mounted to said spindle, a clamp mechanism, said eccentrically mounted drive member being secured to said clamp mechanism for moving said clamp mechanism back and forth in accordance with the movement of said eccentric drive member, a cylinder clamped in said clamp mechanism, said clamp mechanism thereby causing said cylinder to move back and forth in response to the movement of said clamp mechanism, a probe extending through said cylinder and mounted for joint back and forth movement with said cylinder, a medical scope, said probe mounted to said medical scope, said probe extending outwardly beyond said medical scope, a plunger telescopically mounted in said cylinder for relative motion between said cylinder and said plunger, said needle extending through said cylinder and said plunger, a clamping assembly spaced from said clamp mechanism, said plunger being clamped in said clamp assembly, said clamp assembly being fixedly mounted against longitudinal movement to maintain said plunger in a fixed position, and said clamp mechanism being mounted for reciprocal longitudinal movement to move said cylinder back and forth.
15. The assembly of claim 1 wherein said spindle is rotatable about its longitudinal axis, said drive member being part of an oscillating head, said eccentrically mounted drive member moving in an eccentric path with the longitudinal axis of said drive member being spaced from said longitudinal axis of said spindle, and said drive member being mounted in an elongated slot in a slide plate in said oscillating head to move said slide plate in a back and forth direction perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of said spindle.
16. A probe vibrating assembly for endoscopic procedures comprising a main body, a spindle in said main body, a drive mechanism for rotating said spindle, a drive member eccentrically mounted to said spindle, a clamp mechanism, said eccentrically mounted drive member being secured to said clamp mechanism for moving said clamp mechanism back and forth in accordance with the movement of said eccentric drive member, a cylinder clamped in said clamp mechanism, said clamp mechanism thereby causing said cylinder to move back and forth in response to the movement of said clamp mechanism, a probe extending through said cylinder and mounted for joint back and forth movement with said cylinder, a medical scope, said clamp mechanism including a clamp housing, said clamp housing having a seat for receiving said cylinder, a pivotally mounted lever located at said clamp housing, and said pivotally mounted lever having a clamping end biased in a direction toward said seat of said clamp housing whereby said cylinder may be clamped between said seat and said clamping end.
17. The assembly of claim 16 wherein a movable clamping member is located in a passageway in said clamp housing in line with said seat, a notch located in said clamp housing adjacent said seat, said notch having an arcuate shape corresponding to the shape of said cylinder, said movable clamping member being in the path of movement of said clamping end of said lever whereby said clamping end of said lever pushes said movable clamping member into clamping engagement with said cylinder, and whereby said lever may be moved in an opposite direction from its closing direction to release said movable clamping member from clamping arrangement with said cylinder.
18. In an endoscopic method comprising providing a flexible probe mounted to a rotatable spindle, disposing the probe through a flexible medical scope with the probe extending longitudinally outwardly of the medical scope, inserting the probe and the medical scope into a patient, rotating the spindle, converting the rotation of the spindle into a back and forth longitudinal reciprocal movement of the probe without rotation of the probe, and using the longitudinal reciprocal movement of the probe to guide the medical scope in its passage into a patient until the medical scope reaches a hard to reach location of the patient which requires the medical scope for the viewing that location of the patient.
19. The method of claim 18 wherein the hard to reach location is selected from the group consisting of the bile duct and the pancreatic duct.
20. The method of claim 18 wherein the method is selected from the group consisting of ERCP, and the breaking and removal of cancer cells.

1. A flow control device comprising:
an annular housing having a peripheral wall and side walls which provide an enclosure for a body of liquid swellable material, the peripheral wall of the housing having one or more orifices providing inlet ports for liquid flow into the housing one of said side walls of the housing to be located in a downstream position of the device having an outlet opening for liquid flow out of the housing and the other side to be located in an upstream position being closed; and
a body of a liquid swellable material located in the housing having an upstream side, an outer periphery and a downstream side in relation to the direction of liquid flow through the device, the body of liquid swellable material within the housing having an encircling sealing layer around its outer periphery to engage the inner periphery of the housing when the body of material is in a swollen condition from contact with liquid to close off flow of liquid through the housing and to allow liquid flow through the housing when the body of swellable material is in its contracted condition.
2. A flow control device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the housing is mounted concentrically in a tube or cylindrical body through which liquid flows with the closed side wall of the housing upstream of the open side wall and the periphery of the housing spaced inwardly of the tube or cylindrical body.
3. A flow control device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the tube or cylindrical body has a transverse barrier extending across the body and the housing is mounted in the barrier.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A system, comprising;
circuitry, configured to
obtain state information of one or more secondary systems managed by the system in a management region;
determine first radio resources of a primary system available for the secondary systems based on the state information and allow the secondary systems to use the first radio resources;
identify a change of the state information;
determine second radio resources of the primary system available for the secondary systems based on the change; and
request the secondary systems to use the second radio resources if the second radio resources is smaller than the first radio resources.
2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to not to request the secondary systems to use the second radio resources if the second radio resources is larger than the first radio resources.
3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is further configured to indicate the secondary systems to use the first radio resources if the second radio resources is larger than the first radio resources.
4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the state information comprises at least one of: location information of the secondary systems, information of the number of secondary systems, and system parameter information of the secondary systems.
5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the state information of the secondary systems comprises operating regions of the secondary systems, or at least one of a system type, a moving state and an air interface type of the secondary systems, and the circuitry is configured to determine the management region based on the state information.
6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to determine radio resources available to the secondary systems for different positions in the management region, and determine the first radio resources based on the radio resources available to the secondary systems for different positions in the management region.
7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system comprises a database.
8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system comprises the primary system.
9. A method for a system, comprising:
obtaining state information of one or more secondary systems managed by the system in a management region;
determining first radio resources of a primary system available for the secondary systems based on the state information and allow the secondary systems to use the first radio resources;
identifying a change of the state information;
determining second radio resources of the primary system available for the secondary systems based on the change; and
requesting the secondary systems to use the second radio resources if the second radio resources is smaller than the first radio resources.
10. A system, comprising:
circuitry, configured to
provide state information of the system to a device managing the system;
receive first radio resources of a primary system available for the system from the device;
receive second radio resources of the primary system available for the system from the device after receiving the first radio resources;
use the second radio resources if second radio resources is smaller than the first radio resources.
11. The system according to claim 10, wherein the circuitry is further configured to not to use the second radio resources if the second radio resources is larger than the first radio resources.
12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the circuitry is further configured to use the first radio resources if the second radio resources is larger than the first radio resources.
13. The system according to claim 10, wherein the state information comprises at least one of: location information of the system, information of the onoff state of the system, and system parameter information of the system.
14. The system according to claim 1, wherein the state information comprises an operating region of the system or at least one of a system type, a moving state and an air interface type of the system.
15. A method for a system, comprising:
providing state information of the system to a device managing the system;
receiving first radio resources of a primary system available for the system from the device;
receiving second radio resources of the primary system available for the system from the device after receiving the first radio resources;
using the second radio resources if second radio resources is smaller than the first radio resources.
16. A non-transient computer readable medium in a system comprising computer-executable instructions for performing stops of:
obtaining state information of one or more secondary systems managed by the system in a management region;
determining first radio resources of a primary system available for the secondary systems based on the state information and allow the secondary systems to use the first radio resources;
identifying a change of the state information;
determining second radio resources of the primary system available for the secondary systems based on the change; and
requesting the secondary systems to use the second radio resources if the second radio resources is smaller than the first radio resources.
17. A non-transient computer readable medium in a system comprising computer-executable instructions for performing steps of:
providing state information of the system to a device managing the system;
receiving first radio resources of a primary system available for the system from the device;
receiving second radio resources of the primary system available for the system from the device after receiving the first radio resources;
using the second radio resources if second radio resources is smaller than the first radio resources.